CNAME Record

If you would like to forward a domain name that you have to some other domain address or subdomain, one way to do this would be to use a CNAME record. By setting up such a record, the domain being redirected loses all its records (A, MX, and so forth) and instead, it takes the A record of the domain address it is redirected to. By doing this, if you are using a web design service by some company that gives you a subdomain, you can use an actual domain name and not only will it be forwarded to the site you have set up, but it will also be displayed in the browser address bar at all times. Other possible uses of a CNAME record are to point all of the visitors from various subdomains to their main domain, or to use the webmail service of your hosting company by using webmail.your-doman.com, for instance. The latter will work only by creating a CNAME record for a subdomain simply because this type of a record set up for the main domain renders it impossible to use email addresses.

If you have a web hosting plan from our company and you wish to create a CNAME record, it will take you just a few mouse clicks to make it happen. You can access the DNS records for all domain addresses and subdomains hosted within your account via the Hepsia Control Panel offered with each plan and adding a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, picking out the type, which is CNAME in this case, entering the actual record value and saving the modification. If you've never added this type of record before, you will discover a Help section with a detailed video tutorial which you can watch, or you can just contact us and we will help you with this task. If you have built an Internet site through another provider, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you would like to designate a subdomain for use with the services of a different company, such as Google Apps, all it takes is setting up a CNAME record with a few mouse clicks inside your CP.

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with every single one of our semi-dedicated server accounts, will allow you to create a CNAME record without difficulty. When you want to create a private URL for your emails, to forward a domain to a subdomain in the account or to forward a domain name to another provider and use some third-party service that they provide, it's not going to require more than three clicks to set up such a record. All DNS records for the domains and subdomains hosted in the semi-dedicated account will be listed in a separate section in the CP, so once you are there, all you will have to do will be to select the type of the record that you want to set up and the hostname for which you are creating it, and then enter the actual record text. For your benefit, you can watch a short video within the Control Panel on how to create a CNAME record or you can follow the instructions in the help article, that's available in the DNS records section.